Tag Archives: corporate legal budgets

Note: this post was compiled by a team (this post has been updated since publication for clarity). Charles Proteus Steinmetz was an unlikely hero in a key note speech to corporate legal attendees at the 2015 CounselLink Annual Conference. D. Casey Flaherty, the key note speaker, opened his talk with an image of this gentleman. According to Mr. Flaherty, Mr. ... Read More »

Chief Legal Officers (CLOs) expect budgets to remain flat even as they wrestle with a range of issues from security and compliance to diversity, according to the 2015 CLO Survey, recently released by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). The annual survey, which this year counted 1,289 respondents, found “almost two-thirds of chief legal officers said they plan no change ... Read More »

As 2014 comes to an end there have been a number of legal industry studies and surveys published. Several of these studies have focused on law departments – taking a pulse check of inside counsel. This naturally makes perfect sense given corporate counsel – the law firm clientele – is the “center of gravity in the legal industry.” Even so, ... Read More »

No matter the line of business getting things done generally has three key prerequisites: budget, people and resources. The Consero Group recently conducted a short survey with 57 GCs that included questions along these lines and published this report: Consero’s 2014 General Counsel Data Survey. The study is our post for this week’s Friday Share. While the sample size ... Read More »

BTI Consulting Group just released its newest study: Benchmarking Corporate Counsel Management Strategies which is based on 240 interviews with corporate counsel at large and Fortune 1000 companies. The data were collected between March 22 and September 12, 2012. Here are seven takeaways: General Counsel priorities are changing. The survey found the top goal for corporate counsel is delivering more ... Read More »

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